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Given the number of questions about the suggested edit system, I think we need some numbers…

On Stack overflow:

  • What is the mean time it takes for a suggested edit to be acted on?
  • What is the length of time before 95% of pending suggested gets acted on?
  • How does the above change according the time of day and day of the week?
  • How many suggested edits get acted on by normal users?
  • How many suggested edits get acted on by 10K users (var the 10K tools if it is tracked)?

Likewise for one of the newer sites…

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    Heey, you're not alone in this network! We like our stats too you know! Perhaps it would be better to request it as part of the API, so anyone can figure out whatever they want
    – Ivo Flipse Mod
    Commented Feb 22, 2011 at 10:28
  • This will probably find its way into the data dump and the API, but I think it's a bit premature at this point... the team is still hammering out the details.
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Feb 22, 2011 at 18:12
  • @Jon, that way I gust asked for a "add-hock" set of stats, there are two many quesions on meta assuming that we need more people to be able to find edit to aprove.
    – Ian Ringrose
    Commented Feb 23, 2011 at 9:13
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    Maybe you want to propose this here?
    – Ben Pilbrow
    Commented May 10, 2011 at 15:46
  • There's a related question here
    – M. Tibbits
    Commented Aug 4, 2011 at 11:36

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Data was dumped on ~June 6th, 2011.

I don't have information regarding when or how specific users acted on suggested edits, so I will give some stats on when and how quickly suggested edits were processed (i.e., either accepted or rejected).

None of this data is available on SEDE yet, though it should be at some point.

Stack Overflow

Average time for an edit to be processed: 16.6 minutes
Average of top 95% fastest processed times: 11.9 minutes
Average of bottom 5% slowest processed times: 106.3 minutes

DayOfWeek   EditsProcessed  AvgProcessedTimeInMins
---------   --------------  ----------------------
Sun         4616            23.5
Mon         8634            15.9
Tues        9415            15.5
Wed         9658            14.8
Thurs       9994            14.9
Fri         8924            14.8
Sat         4804            24.5

You didn't ask for this, but it was easy to calculate:

Post Type       Count
----------      -----
Question        38634
Answer          11315
Wiki               96
TagWiki          3393
TagWikiExcerpt   2607

While gathering this data, I found that the processing time varies considerably across sites, so instead of just putting up one random other site, here are the first three stats for all the data sets I have access to. The times are in minutes.

Site           Count  Average  Avg95Pct  Avg5Pct
----           -----  -------  --------  -------
Android          323    209.3     150.5   1314.5
Apple            490    154.7     104.0   1119.0
Cooking          197    187.5     114.3   1608.1
CsTheory         111     71.9      53.0    439.6
DIY               47   1415.9    1084.3   8093.8
Electronics      282    168.6     102.6   1375.6
English          658     40.0      28.7    257.4
GameDev          474     72.4      52.8    448.7
Gaming           741     29.0      20.8    183.8
GIS              210    197.8     135.7   1362.8
Math            1381     14.6       8.3    131.8
Photography      225     75.5      56.5    429.6
Programmers     1180     26.8      17.9    195.7
ServerFault     1807     61.0      43.7    389.0
StackOverflow  56045     16.6      11.9    106.3
Stats            173     63.9      48.8    365.9
SuperUser       2606     17.5      11.5    131.6
TeX              779     16.5       6.9    200.0
Ubuntu          1610     51.8      33.0    411.0
Unix             428     74.2      51.2    506.8
WebApps          362     75.5      52.5    502.6
Webmasters       373    270.4     190.7   1803.1
WordPress        282     75.7      56.8    431.6

Given that the bottom 5% of processed times are massively higher than the averages, I suspect these are the edits that no one really knows what to do with, so they leave them for the next person to make a decision.

The stats for Home Improvement (DIY) are a bit concerning.

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  • diy's count of edits is so low I wouldn't be that concerned -- not enough data, really
    – Jeff Atwood
    Commented Jul 10, 2011 at 1:44
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    @Jeff: Agreed, but that bottom 5% at 5.6 days means that I think we should be watching that pretty carefully.
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 10, 2011 at 2:45
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    How many of the "aproves/rejects" come from none 10K users?
    – Ian Ringrose
    Commented Jul 15, 2011 at 14:32
  • @Ian: As I mentioned, unfortunately, I was not given data regarding who voted on (and/or approved/rejected) suggested edits.
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 15, 2011 at 22:02

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